In Nouns^x, Whom^x

Hi Ant,In one of the last posts you said: What I wanted to say is, whenever the indefinite article is used, the following noun is either countable or plays a "countable" role.Question 1:Emphasis is on the whenever. This is the same thing I said above. Let me rephrase it again, even...

I tried to solve this lil test but i couldnt figure out all answers. Would you be so kind and help me with it? I have no answer key for it so I can't compare my answers with correct ones and im not sure of my answers :( I hope that u'll find some time to help :)read the following text and...

Thanks CJ.I thought about that. But I figured otherwise: "they (the parents) wish that their children would grow up" -> "the parents wish that the children (object of the clause) would grow up".I pulled a couple of sentences from a dictionary: 1. The man whom you just met...

I need your opinion on the usage of the relative pronoun "whom" in this sentence.Or should it be "who" instead? Is this sentence correct in general? :Parents are feeling responsible for the bad behaviors of their children whom they wish would grow up for the better...

.Hello, yhaj-- and welcome to English Forums. Your sentence should read:I love Eliza, who parked cars in the parking lot.Who is the pronoun used for subjects, and here who is the subject for parked.

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.Weak and sore are objective...

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.Weak and sore are objective...

Thank you. You wrote:If the preposition is in the middle of the sentence, 'whom' would be necessary. To me using the word "seem" in a "would" clause seems very peculiar. Omiting the word "would" from the "would" clause also seems peculiar.To me,...

'whom' would be necessary. To me using the word "seem" in a "would" clause seems very peculiar. Omiting the word "would" from the "would" clause also seems peculiar.

Sorry. You think wrong. You can always use who instead of whom when you leave the preposition 'stranded' at the end. Use whom for very formal contexts.It would be quite idiomatic to leave out the relative pronoun completely, thus avoiding the use of whom:I don't like the boy...